Isaiah 18:2

Modern English Version

which sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of reeds on the waters, saying, “Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared far and wide, a nation strong and oppressive, whose land the rivers have divided.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 14:9

But Zerah the Cushite came out against them with an army of one million men and three hundred chariots. And he came up to Mareshah.

2 Chronicles 16:8

Were not the Cushites and Libyans a very large army with chariots and horses, but when you depended on the Lord, He gave them to your hand.

Job 9:26

They pass by like reed skiffs, like an eagle rushing upon its prey.

Exodus 2:3

When she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and daubed it with tar and pitch. She then put the child in it and set it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Isaiah 18:7

In that time a present shall be brought to the Lord of Hosts from a people tall and smooth, and from a people feared far and wide, a nation strong and oppressive, whose land the rivers have divided, to the place of the name of the Lord of Hosts, even Mount Zion.

Jeremiah 49:14

I have heard a message from the Lord, and an ambassador has been sent to the nations: “Gather together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle!”

Ezekiel 30:9

In that day messengers shall go forth from Me in ships to make the careless Cushites afraid, and great pain shall come upon them as in the day of Egypt. Behold, it is coming!

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom (We have heard a report from the Lord and a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying: “Rise up! Let us rise up against it for battle!”):

Habakkuk 1:7

They are terrible and dreadful; their justice and their dignity proceed from themselves.

Luke 10:19

Behold, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. And nothing shall by any means hurt you.